Years That Answer

Today is the annual garden sale, downtown in my little town. The streets are closed and filled with vendors, food trucks, and happy people. ...

Yesterday I posted the drop garden meadow from our NYS home.  Today I will finish up this nostalgic love story with pictures of the more for...

When you have a ridiculous number of perennial flower beds, each year you have a lot of dividing to do. For many years I gave our extras to ...

We lived in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State for 39 years, moving to Central Florida in 2014. We didn't buy our first house unt...

We don't really know what we are doing when it comes to vegetable gardening in general, and particularly in Central Florida. However, ea...

The back of our yard is dominated by two cabbage palm trees. Because of the path of the sun, they provide some shade for the garden undernea...

It's hard to keep up with the weeds in my perennial beds. The summers in Central Florida are long, hot and oppressively sunny. It is imp...

I ache from gardening today. I am battling a specific flowering plant propagating via underground suckers AND volunteer seeds. It is called ...

It feels like summer now to this northern transplant, but it isn't. Summer is yet to come. Summer is a whole other kettle of fish in Ce...

A t 7:00 a.m., I stumbled into the kitchen and poured myself a cup of coffee. I ate oatmeal while checking my blog for comments and readi...

The month of June ushers in the heat, the humidity, the rains, and hurricane season. It has been very dry for a long, long time, so in some ...

Well, if you can believe it I ate our second homegrown tomato of the season this morning. I chopped it up and sprinkled it on a split five g...

I planted caladium under the American sycamore tree out front. We shall see if it grows.  After so many gardening failures I no longer have ...

I did some serious gardening this morning.  Now my lower back is killing me.  I need to bounce back fairly quick, as there is still a lot of...

Although the re can still be the odd day in the mid-50's ( F ahrenheit...), now there are an increasing number of days in Central Flo...